Funke Akindele, Yemi Alade for Nickelodeon Award

Popular actress , Funke Akindele and singer Yemi Alade have been nominated for this year’s Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.

The award celebrates kids’ favourites from across the worlds of film, television, music and pop culture. The Nigerian entertainers have been nominated alongside Trevor Noah, Lupita Nyong’o, Pearl Thusi and Wayde van Niekerk in the “Favourite African Star” category.

Stars will vie for the famous Nickelodeon “blimp” trophy across ten music categories, with Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and Twenty One Pilots topping the list with four nominations each. After ruling the Billboard and iTunes charts, The Chainsmokers make their Kids’ Choice Awards nominee debut with two nods for “Favourite Music Group” and “Favourite New Artist”.